…but we’ll be back soon, rested and ready to take on the biggest environmental and conservation challenges of the day.

Forget ‘Cocaine Bear’ and ‘Cocaine Shark.’ To really understand the environmental threat of illicit drugs, look to eels.

…to read while it’s too hot to do anything else.

What a new paper can teach us about hope amidst the extinction crisis.

This month’s best new environmental books provide a healthy dose of hope while also tackling tough topics like pollution, extinction and trauma.

…and it did a halfway decent job. But algorithms alone can’t save endangered species. For that you need people who care and who act.

You can’t stop climate change or the extinction crisis without fighting inequality, injustice and conspiracies.

This month Links From the Brink has a pack of good-news stories about wild, endangered felines.

New research finds that at least 254 bat species face pressure from hunters, and that could push some of them into extinction.

We’ve got the word on an important new treaty, a victory against ag-gag laws, and two new threats to the massive Andean condor.